Steve Wozniak's Advice for Travel Agents

“My motivation was fun,” Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak said of the pioneering work he did in triggering the personal computer revolution.

Wozniak spoke during a Q&A session with Travel Leaders Group CEO Ninan Chacko during the 2017 Travel Leaders Network International Conference held at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando.

Wozniak, who single-handedly developed the 1976 Apple 1—the computer that launched Apple—told the audience of travel agents that he was totally self-taught and had never considered having a job designing computers.

His work doing just that led, of course, to co-founding Apple with Steve Jobs.

—Computers learn faster than humans but learning is not intelligence. . . and so robots will only be designed to help humans.

—“It’s a ridiculous concept then to tap into those fears” of AI, Artificial Intelligence.

—“I’ve reversed my perspective to go against the naysayers,” regarding those who fear AI. “I don’t fear it; it helps us get things done in the human realm.”

—The Cloud is a “dangerous concept” because of cyber security, given the amount of hacking. Computers are designed for maximum capability first and security follows that. “The security doesn’t come from the ground up.”

—“You’re giving away ownership of your stuff, if you’re giving things to the Cloud. What I want to be private should be private.”

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